Music throughout the years has evolved from the renaissance to Rock-n-Roll and Hip-Hop. The music these days music these days are usually Rap, Hip-Hop, Rock-n-Roll, Christian Rock, and R&B. These types of music are not just listened to by random people they are listened to by people who love the sound or what the song is talking about. But I am not going to talk about the people I’m going to talk about what music was listened to in the past. Music formally started from medieval / renaissance era. At this time the instruments used were either string, piano, or drum based following trumpets. The music made were melody type like Fur Elise. Throughout the renaissance instrumental dance music flowered and thrived, and was composed or improvised by many people. Because of the renaissance people wouldn’t have gotten the idea of dance music that makes you want to move.

The next era of music is the 20th century. The 20th century saw a revolution in music listening as the radio gained popularity worldwide and new media and technologies were developed to record, capture, reproduce, distribute music. Music performances became increasingly visual with the broadcast and recording of music videos and concerts. Music of all kinds became increasingly portable. Headphones allowed people sitting next to each other to listen to entirely different performances or share the same performance. 20th century music brought a new freedom and wide experimentation with new...

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Classification procedures attempt to characterize the degree of similarity among elements of a set. Because musical systems are complex combinations of features (e.g., pitch, rhythm, instruments, performance style), the classification of music is strongly tied in with a cognitive understanding of the basic sub-systems that comprise music. For example, a classification of interval sizes would occur along a continuous dimension whereas a classification of rhythm-types would most likely be done with regard to a series of categorical sub-types. While classification procedures are able to quantify the musical similarity between any two songs, the more important objective of classification is to create stylistic clusters of entire repertoires. These clusters can be thought of as “music families”, analogous to language families in linguistics. In addition, cultures differ in their degree of musical...

...Thinking 103
15 February 2013
Immigration Then & Now; an Unchanged Pattern
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...pop music
a type of music, usually played on electronic instruments, that is popular with many people because it consists of short songs with a strong beat and simple tunes that are easy to remember. Pop music is often simply called pop.
rock ’n’ roll
a type of music that was popular in the 1950s and combined simple blues structures played on guitars with strong regular beats
soul music
a type of African-American music that developed in the 1960s, combining r &amp;amp; b with pop, rock ’n’ roll, and gospel styles. Soul music usually has a strong beat and places emphasis on singing. It is often simply called soul.
swing
a type of jazz dance music that was popular in the 1930s and 1940s, played by large groups of musicians and combining simple tunes with more complicated improvisation
punk
noun
a type of music that developed in the 1970s from rock and roll, consisting of simple tunes played quickly and loudly on electronic instruments and words that often express anger against society
gospel
a type of Christian music influenced by soul and r and b that developed in the churches that black people went to in the south of the US in the past. It is sung by groups of singers who have powerful voices
folk music
traditional music from a particular country, region, or community,...

...it would be dreadful. That is not the case anymore.
This genre of music is amusing and very pleasing to the ears. The band members are some of the most talented musicians I’ve heard. This was my first time attending a jazz concert. Therefore, I didn’t know what kind of music to expect. This concert was a new experience for me. It was far different from any rock concert held in some big venue. The purpose of this concert was to give people a taste of jazz. This was a jazz concert, but some of the pieces they interpreted were modern. The music that was played was not the kind that makes you does off. I was somewhat excited about attending this concert; I was hoping I wouldn’t be disappointed or get board.
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CLASSICAL MUSIC
Classical music is the main form of music, and refers mainly to the music which prevailed in the world before the 20th century. Classical music is a complex form of...

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...varieties.
Almost all jazz styles have improvisations and swing feeling.
Improvisation means compose and perform at the same time.
Four ingredients that help music swing are steady beat, syncopation, lilting quality, and rising and falling of the melodic line.
Charles Mingus was a jazz bassist known for his composing and improvising.
Dizzy Gillespie was a modern jazz trumpeter who devised a highly syncopated style of improvising.
Jazz musicians usually begin playing a tune they all know and then they make up their own music.
Chapter 2
Jazz musicians follow common practices while performing tunes such as the 12-bar blues and the A-A-B-A construction.
The melody in a tone is played before and after the improvisation is played.
Rhythm section is the part of a jazz combo that provides the accompaniment for the soloist.
Chorus: Single paying through of the structure being used to organize the music in an improvisation.
Bridge: The B part of and A-A-B-A composition.
Walking bass: A bass note per beat.
Comping: Syncopated chording accompaniment for an improvised solo.
Chapter 3
New Orleans was the ideal site for the birth of jazz because it was an intensely musical city.
African American music such as blues and ragtime blended with European dance music and church music.
Ragtime: A popular turn of the 20th century style of written piano music involving pronounced syncopation.
Blues:...

...﻿What Genre of Music is Most Popular in Teens and Why?
What makes music popular?
Over 90% of responses have said that 3 things make a good song. Those three factors are lyrics, a melody line and a catchy rhythm (Forum.emusictheory.com, 2014). My survey I created has reached a result to this question that most people said that the best type of music is the one with the most meaning. They said that the lyrics of the song make it good because they like that it has meaning and songs without meaning are worth nothing. Another factor they said that makes a popular song is that it has to be in tune and in sync with the beat. If the beat does not flow with the lyrics than it will just be awkward and hard to follow (Survey Monkey, My Survey, 2014). From the teachers, music students, store workers and other individuals I interviewed they all had different types of music in which they like to listen to. They all agreed with the other people’s opinions but because they know more about music they also had different responses and added other factors which contributed as to what makes music popular. They said that certain types of instruments and objects can make a difference.
What makes music unpopular?
As shown in the Yahoo answers blog, the general public opinionated about what bad music is. These people think that bad music is either...